[Aztlan] Translation of honesty

[Henry Avila]

Thank you very much, and this Tojolab´al, is a maya dialect?


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From: "Nick Hopkins" <nhopkins en mailer.fsu.edu>
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Subject: [Aztlan] Translation of honesty


> Henry et al.-- The only place I can find an translation is in Carlos
> Lenkersdorf's Spanish-Tojolab'al dictionary.  Lenkersdorf has gone
> beyond the usual dictionary by not limiting himself to words in
> common usage but trying to find (or create) Tojolab'al expressions
> that more or less match the meanings of commonly used Spanish words.
> His equivalents are:
>
>      honestidad; stojolil
>      honesto/a; tojol
>      Hombre honesto; tojol winik
>      Su conducta no es honesta; mi tojuk la smodo 'i.
>
> The root in all these is "toj" and Kaufman's Etymological Dictionary
> (FAMSI) glosses this as "straight," and the entries across the family
> cover the range of "straight, correct, right, good, true, just."
> Probably as close as you can get.
>
> Nick Hopkins
> Tojol Winik
>
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